From 6f4f9a3effeb16de0348d3cf136664f7531f498d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dylan Wu <6586811+dylan-wu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 21:47:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing insert from JSON containing strings with non-ascii
 characters are escaped aps unicode for lists, tuples, dicts (#258)

---
 sqlite_utils/db.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sqlite_utils/db.py b/sqlite_utils/db.py
index d9a6b26..0e37b12 100644
--- a/sqlite_utils/db.py
+++ b/sqlite_utils/db.py
@@ -2222,7 +2222,7 @@ def jsonify_if_needed(value):
     if isinstance(value, decimal.Decimal):
         return float(value)
     if isinstance(value, (dict, list, tuple)):
-        return json.dumps(value, default=repr)
+        return json.dumps(value, default=repr, ensure_ascii=False)
     elif isinstance(value, (datetime.time, datetime.date, datetime.datetime)):
         return value.isoformat()
     elif isinstance(value, uuid.UUID):